triploid
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Salmon can be sterilized by making them triploid, typically by pressurizing newly fertilized embryos in a steel tank when the chromosomes are replicating.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2020
Over time, the wild types have been selected and bred to be triploid, but this dynamic also has halted the banana's genetic evolution.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 1, 2014
The triploid oyster, as it is called, is bred to be sterile and planted by farmers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2013
The other sperm fuses with the diploid nucleus in the center of the embryo sac, forming a triploid cell that will develop into the endosperm: a tissue that serves as a food reserve.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
It may be triploid, that is, with 3 sets of chromosomes instead of the normal double set, and this would account for its barrenness.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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